About Me

gary@garylindstrom.com
METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE
RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ADJUNCT FACULTY
● Teach Criminal Justice, Political Science, American History I and II, Sociology I and II, Twentieth Century World History, Ethics, Social Psychology, Comparative Government, Contemporary Social Problems,Public Speaking, Sociology of Criminology, Group Communication, Conflict Resolution, Effective Presentations and American Government.
● Fifth largest Community College in the United States with 20,000 students
COLORADO STATE REPRESENTATIVE 2004-2007
●Elected State Representative.
●Served as Vice Chairman of Local Government, member of House Transportation Committee and Transportation Legislative Review Committee.
SUMMIT COUNTY COMMISSIONER 1995-2004
●In charge of 500 employees and a budget in excess of $20 million with an emphasis on land use and new construction.
●Built three new libraries, county commons, animal control, county communications center, fire training center, senior center, community center, state patrol office, involved in the approval and planning of the new hospital and medical office building.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

I send e mails a couple of times a day if I can find an Internet connection.

I write them several times a day and then just keep them on my laptop until I get connected. I am sorry if I confuse you with what I am writing and your perception of what I am doing and where I am. I will try to remember to put the time I am writing in the subject line. When I write about early in the morning and then send it late that night it does not make sense.

I go to bed every night at around 9 pm and get up every morning at 4 am. I have done that for years. I am a true morning person and feel that I do my best thinking and work before the rest of the world gets out of bed. This morning I was in bed trying to remember where I was and why I was here. Strange feeling. Then a bird out of my window began to sing the most beautiful song. I had never heard that bird before and it was fascinating. Then I was able to hear, off in the distance, another bird answering the call with the same song. Amazing.

I have noticed that there are a lot of Monarch butterflies here. Several years ago my sister Janet was involved in a project in Iowa to tag Monarch butterflies to check their migration patterns. I aways imagined those relatively big tags that they put on the feet of larger birds. I know that her tags were smaller.

You have two choices. You can sit on the couch and rot with the tv remote control in your hand or you can get out and about and do something. I have always been a do something kind of guy. I had a couple of weeks from the time I got back to Breckenridge from Texas and leaving for Guatemala. That was a remote control kind of time. I actually could tell that my mind and body were slowing down. I am always reminded of the men and women who retire after a long and hard career only to sit around the house and die a young death. Then I remember the people who I see here in Guatemala who have decided to risk something and let go of the remote control and get out into the world and do something.

Last night at dinner I was listening to Tony and the fellow from Calgary talk about their travels. Neither will ever have any regrets. Tony told a

story about hitchhiking from Oklahoma City to Dallas. He got a ride from a driver going to El Paso. Tony figured "why not?" and ended up spending a couple of weeks in El Paso. How is that for being spontaneous? He was suppose to be in Dallas to pick up some money that his brother had wired him

so he still had to go there. It just took a week longer. The fellow from Calgary had been in Denver many times but had never stopped. He just passed

through because it was not where he was going at the time. Both men live off of opportunity or the fruits of the land. One of the reasons Tony came to San Pedro Spanish School was because of cheap housing and food, not to learn Spanish.

Believe it or not tomorrow marks my halfway point in San Pedro. I know that

I have learned a lot and know that I have a lot more to do before I leave in